Earlier today (25 July) several police turned up to look at a hole in the field, in actual fact it is a tunnel, but hey!
The police then came on site after apparently swearing was heard and was there excuse for entering the boundary around the house. they tried to get up on to the roof of the house and fetched a crow bar and to leverage there way in through one of the boarded up windows but failed to get in any ware as the house has had a month of fortifications built into it.
Details at this point are sketchy, the police claim swearing came from the tree house, but according to the site crew, it was from elsewhere so they attempted to arrest the occupier to no avail, and have threatened to come back latter with police climbers
Not content at that one of the female crew at Bodge house, striped naked and jumped into the bucket of a digger working at the bottom of the drive and refused to move, this meant that the police had to go back to the house and plead with some of the female crew to come and ask her to give up the protest. There was no answer from in the house and one protester they should knock on the front door, the police man was puzzled and said he didn’t know there was one, and was sent around the front to look for it….only to return embarrassed for being taken for a fool
So are if you are around and want to join in the fun get down to Bodge house
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July 28, 2010 at 2:02 pm
silverbird
Good luck with the resiatance!
, and all resident at
HuntingtonLane is holding fast as well – we havent had eviction notices served, allowing a lot of defensive work to take place while the wait continues.
We have just learned that at a Secret meeting of the Liason commitee near the site, that UK Coal have now withdrawn their coal washing plant scheme, due to inability to secure a water supply that will meet its needs during the mines life.
DRY MINING is now their answer – with all the dust that will ensue from both preperation,and coaling work ( if it goes ahead), and transporting and loading dry coal,as we all know does nothing to help the environment in any way.
They plan to use surface water collection,and that fromthe Void cuts, to “damp down” the site, which to our way of thinking , means that highly sulferous water from leaching through coal seams and old workings, will then be sprayed into the air to evaporate as an aerosol, thus harming the trees adjoining the site.
this in turn, in a smaller degree, will percolate back downwards, tobe collected and re -used, bringing forth a highly concentrated poisonus fluid – which if water treatment manages to clean, will be released into both Lydebrook (SSSI site ), or Limeliln lane brook.
Not good news for the environment at all – or the animals who rely onthe water.
We are calling for more people if anyone feels they can join us, the partys will be going well as Summer progresses, and the days works done!.
If eviction succeeds at your camp – youre more than welcome to joius and consolidate.
Best wishes from SilverBird,
Huntington Lane Opencast Protest Site.
More info at Defendhuntingtonlane.co